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As of September 4, 2026, Amazon had a market capitalization of $2.79T (companiesmarketcap.com). Its most recent revenue figure is $717B, reported by SEC EDGAR (10-K), December 2025.
Amazon Web Services is the world's largest cloud computing platform, offering on-demand compute, storage, database, AI/ML, and networking infrastructure to businesses and governments globally.
Amazon was founded in July 1994 and began selling books on its website in July 1995.[1] Kleiner Perkins general partner John Doerr joined Amazon's board in June 1996.[1] The shares were priced at $18.00 each.[1] In the second quarter of 2026, Amazon's net sales rose 20% to $200.6 billion.[2],[3] AWS segment sales grew 37% to $42.2 billion in the same quarter.[2] Cash capital expenditures reached $96.3 billion in the first half of 2026, mostly for technology infrastructure supporting AWS.[4] Amazon holds investments in both Anthropic and OpenAI, which its filings describe as unconsolidated variable interests.[4] In April 2026 it agreed to invest $5 billion in Anthropic, with up to $20 billion more tied to commercial milestones, on top of $8 billion invested earlier.[5],[3] For earlier-stage startups, Amazon runs the $1 billion Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, which invests in fulfillment, logistics and supply-chain technology.[6] It also buys robotics startups: in March 2026 it acquired Zurich-based Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot.[7],[3] The same month it confirmed the purchase of Fauna Robotics, a two-year-old startup building kid-size humanoid robots for the home.[8]
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Amazon is an E-commerce & cloud company, based in Seattle, Washington, USA, founded 1994 by Jeff Bezos.
| Date | Event | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2026 | debt | up to $80B (undrawn facility) | — | SEC |
Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta are on pace to spend $720 billion to $740 billion combined on AI data centers in 2026, just as voters from Ohio to Texas elected officials who campaigned against the buildout.
As of October 31, 2026, Anthropic's ~$78B in debt-backed financing, Amazon's $80B supplier loan and Intel's $12B stake loss show AI financing risk is shifting from equity multiples to leverage.
Amazon disclosed a secured loan facility of up to $80 billion, confirmed in its Q3 2026 SEC filing, to help finance AI hardware purchases as its total purchase commitments reach $883.6 billion.
Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Intel filed September-quarter results on Oct. 28 and 29. Google Cloud revenue rose 103%, Azure 48% and AWS 39%, while quarterly capex reached $51.4B at Alphabet and $39.4B at Microsoft.
Anthropic's venture backers stand to collect billions when the company goes public, but Amazon's position dwarfs what any VC firm will take home: roughly $18 billion invested, with its $6.2 billion of remaining convertible notes alone carried at a $97.9 billion fair value, a paper mark rather than extra capital.
Google released TorchTPU, its PyTorch fork for Tensor Processing Units, one day after Amazon's TorchNeuron -- a two-hyperscaler push against Nvidia's roughly 85% grip on the framework most AI apps use.
Amazon released TorchNeuron, letting existing PyTorch AI applications move onto its Trainium chips with one configuration change, aiming at the software lock-in that has kept Nvidia GPUs the default choice for most AI developers.
Amazon will fund and be the first buyer of power from a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana built with 12 of X-energy's small modular reactors, its second and much larger deal with the reactor maker.
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay told TechCrunch Disrupt that founders should extract lessons from failure, citing the roughly $1B Surface RT write-down from his Microsoft tenure as his clearest example.
Amazon launched two new Bee wearables, the $74.99 Frontier and $99.99 Eclipse, that listen to conversations and turn them into AI-generated summaries and to-dos.
Amazon's Bee unit launched two AI wearables, the $74.99 Bee Frontier and $99.99 Bee Eclipse, undercutting rival AI recorders as Amazon pushes deeper into always-on personal AI.
Google launched Universal Cart in the US on October 15, letting shoppers save and track products across Search and Gemini with price-drop alerts, directly challenging agentic-commerce pushes from Amazon and OpenAI.
Before going public it raised venture money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which bought Series A preferred stock at $14.05 per share.[1]
Amazon's May 1997 IPO sold 3,000,000 shares on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol AMZN.[1]
For earlier-stage startups, Amazon runs the $1 billion Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, which invests in fulfillment, logistics and supply-chain technology.[6]
Amazon's market capitalization was $2.79T as of September 4, 2026, according to companiesmarketcap.com.
Amazon's most recent revenue figure is $717B, reported by SEC EDGAR (10-K), December 2025.
Amazon was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, according to Wikipedia.
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